SPOTLIGHT

DANNY MILLER

HAILS FROM QUEENS, NEW YORK USA

PLAYS IN LEWIS DEL MAR

SOUNDS LIKE TRANSCENDENTAL, HIGH-CONCEPT ALT-ROCK

LATEST DROP AUGUST (LP OUT NOW VIA FADER)

What’s your current go-to guitar?

I have an Alvarez Parlor acoustic, which is currently the guitar I play onstage and record with. I came across it because I was travelling with an older Martin 000, but that guitar was getting too beaten up with all the flying, and the maintenance costs were starting to add up. I wanted something with great tone and resonance, but that I didn’t have to be precious about. I bought my first Alvarez Parlor in 2016 when we were touring heavily, and a couple months after copping it, I smashed it during a performance on television. I walked right into a guitar store the next day and bought a new one for $200. Can’t go wrong at that price!

How did you initially fall in love with the instrument?

I fell in love with guitar through learning about latin folk music. My family is Nicaraguan, and my first guitar teacher, Amilcar Cruz, was also from